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6.4/10   22 votes
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Director:
David Howard
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Writers:
Colbert Clark (screenplay)
James Gruen (screenplay)
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Release Date:
15 November 1934 (USA) more
Genre:
Western more
Tagline:
An unusual and colorful western with music and a beautiful background.
Plot:
Kentucky loses his horse in a rigged horse race and gets framed for the murder of a stagecoach driver. full summary | add synopsis
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User Comments:
Good but perhaps it has too much music more

Cast

  (Complete credited cast)
Ken Maynard ... Ken aka 'Kentucky'
Tarzan ... Tarzan (Ken's horse)
Evalyn Knapp ... Lila Miller
H.B. Warner ... Charlie Miller
Kenneth Thomson ... Matt Korber, alias Mr. Chandler
Wheeler Oakman ... Tracy

George 'Gabby' Hayes ... Cactus (as George Hayes)
George Burton ... Henchman Red
George Chesebro ... Henchman Nick
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Additional Details

Also Known As:
Down in Old Santa Fe
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Runtime:
64 min
Country:
USA
Language:
English
Aspect Ratio:
1.37 : 1 more
Sound Mix:
Mono (International Sound Recording Company)
Filming Locations:
Kentucky, USA

Fun Stuff

Trivia:
This film is essentially Gene Autry's screen test. And after Ken Maynard's quarrelsomeness got him fired by studio head Nat Levine, Autry won his first starring role in The Phantom Empire (1935), originally intended to star Maynard. Autry later helped quietly support Maynard when he was old and alcoholic. more
Movie Connections:
Featured in Golden Saddles, Silver Spurs (2000) (TV) more
Soundtrack:
Down In Old Santa Fe more

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1 out of 1 people found the following comment useful:-
Good but perhaps it has too much music, 20 May 2009
7/10
Author: dbborroughs from Glen Cove, New York

*** This comment may contain spoilers ***

The reissue print I saw lists Gene Autry as the star, but the truth is he's only in one scene singing a song at a party. The real star of the film is Ken Maynard, one of the first singing cowboys in one of his last appearances in "musical" western. The Plot has to do with Ken helping out the owner of a dude ranch that is wanted by a gangster. First the gangster fixes a horse race and then he resorts to murder and robbery, framing Maynard in the hope of getting him out of the way. Good action packed film is slowed down by too many songs. The songs aren't bad but it takes up too much room with the result being that the first 40 minutes is rather leisurely while the final 15 or 20 minutes is a race to the wire. I wish things had been more spread out, especially since the film kind of slows to a crawl after the horse race. Still its worth a look, preferably as part of a double feature evening.

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